Improvement in paper boxes



ATC

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. TURNER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,022, dated June 16,1874; application iiled April 2, 1874.

i To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES WINsoN TUR- NER.,of Boston, county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Paper Boxes, of which the following is aspecification:

The nature of my invention is that of apasteboard or other box without acover, which slides into and out of another paper box whose two endsides are removed, the first-named box being provided with a falsebottom and a narrow opening, in some cases, in one side; and the objectis to provide a device to hold photographs, and also the negative fromwhich they are made, secure from the access of light and other causes ofdamage.

Figure lis a view, in perspective, of my device with the inner boxpartly drawn out from its case. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of both boxand case across the middle of the same.

In the drawings, A, Figs. l and 2, is the outer case, being a pasteboardor other box with the two end sides removed. B, Fig. 2, is the innerbox, being a box with no cover and a false bottom, O, Figs. l and 2, andhaving at one side (see D, Fig. 1) a narrow oblong aperture, extendingfrom end to end of that side, which aperture leads into the spacebetween the bottom of the inner box and the false bottom of the same.

I sometimes dispense with the aperture D in the side of the inner box,and, instead thereof, make my false bottom removable from the inner boxby raising it perpendicularly, 'thus dispensing with the side apertureof the inner box, retaining all the other features shown in my drawings.

E is one of two projections fastened upon the upper side ofthe bottom ofthe inner box, respectively, at each end, and reaching from one of thelong sides to the other, and called the raisers,7 to raise the negativeplate from contact withthe bottom.

The operation ot' my simple, but novel and eflcacious, device is asfollows: The inner box B being withdrawn from the case A, the negativeplate is passed through the narrow opening l), Fig. 1,01", it' the falsebottom is removable, laid upon the true bottom into the sp ice betweenthe true bottom ot' the inni-r nox and the false bottom O, Figs. l and2, ot' the same. The inner box B is then replaced by sliding' it intothe outer case A, thus closing the aperture by which the negative wasadmitted, and all danger of damage by exposure to light, to moisture, toscratching of the prepared surface, or breakage of the glass when goingby express or by mail, is obviated.

I sometimes close the aperture D by means ot' a iiap of the samedimensions and shape with the side of the inner box opposite the iiap,whizli latter is attached by means oi' its lower edge to the bottom ot'the box at the corner. The upper portion of the inner case B, above thefalse bottou, is used for the deposit ofthe photographs made from thenegative thus protected by the device, which photographs can thus bereadily removed or replaced without disturbance of the glass negativeplate.

I make my protectors to accommodate all sizes of photographs known tothe trade.

I claim as a new article of manufacture- The within-described paper box,consisting of an outer case, A, inclosing an inner case,B, havin g afalse bottom, O, and a slot or opening, D, as specified.

JAMES VINSON TURNER.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL P. JENKs, KATIE MOCLENY.

